Weather

Expect an iffy Saturday, with half a chance of rain, followed by a sublime Sunday, an even nicer Monday — which is Columbus Day — and a clear, golden week.

Fall has hit its stride nicely.

In the News

• In the latest installment of “Murder in the 4-0,” a series examining every murder this year in the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx, a man who killed a mother on a playground months ago remains free. Detectives struggle to find clues. [New York Times]

• Todd R. Howe is a lobbyist who has implicated himself in a corruption case that threatens to do lasting harm to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s political career. [New York Times]

• The New Jersey Transit train that crashed in Hoboken last week was traveling at twice the speed limit just before the fatal accident. [New York Times]

• Hasidic Jews will sacrifice about 50,000 chickens this week as part of a penitential ritual. [New York Times]

• The Archdiocese of New York will offer monetary compensation for victims of sexual abuse by clergy members. [New York Times]

• Police officers and firefighters in New York Task Force 1, a group that provided assistance after Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti, are heading south to help out with Hurricane Matthew. [NBC]

• A clown with a knife blocked the doorway of a 6 train on the Upper East Side, preventing people from getting off, and then chased a 16-year-old boy off the subway, the police said. [DNAInfo]

And Finally...

“After it moves up the Carolina coastline it turns east and does this little hook toward the south,” said Brian Siemnecki, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service who is stationed at Brookhaven, N.Y.

“Our region will not be affected,” he added.

The hurricane is hammering Florida after wreaking havoc on Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and Haiti, where the top United Nations official there called it “the largest humanitarian event” since the earthquake in 2010.